Shrubs to 3 m tall. Branchlets ± villous. Petiole 0.8-1.5 cm, pubescent; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 3-4 × ca. 1 cm, abaxially pubescent, adaxially sparsely villous, base cuneate-rounded to rounded, margin entire, apex acute; lateral veins 10 on each side of midvein. Male catkin cylindric, 2.5-3(-4) cm; peduncle usually with 1 or 2 squamate leaflets; bracts oblong or elliptic, ca. 1/2 as long as filaments, pubescent, ciliate. Male flower: adaxial gland shortly cylindric; stamens 2, free; filaments pilose proximally. Female catkin ca. 3 cm, 6-8 × ca. 1.5 cm in fruit; peduncle ca. 1.5 cm, with 2 or 3 leaflets; bracts as in male catkin. Female flower: gland adaxial; ovary narrowly ovoid, pilose, long stipitate; style short; stigma 4-lobed. Capsule slightly pilose.
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